From “Soviet Life“, via Google Translate: “Hoover “Saturn.” In production since 1962 in Lithuania. His prototype – American «Hoover Constellation» 1955. Soviet engineers gave the American a spherical shape, and added features (the ability to use a blow-off mode) and mobility. As a nice bonus – the cosmic name and plastic ring “around the equator.” That was more like a planet.”

Below, my own Hoover Constellation Four Forty Six, inherited from a great aunt and beloved by me. It is an also object of desire for my friend Anakana, a sort of high-level vacuum appreciater. Seeing the Russian Saturn, though, has made the Hoover Constellation shine paler in the vacuum firmament.